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Spanish Unions Call General Strike

MADRID—Spanish unions Friday called a general strike on March 29, the biggest challenge to date to the policies of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Last month's overhaul of Spain's rigid labor laws provides the rallying call for the protest. "It [labor reform] represents a brutal regression in hiring rules and opens the door to free dismissals," said Ignacio Fernández Toxo, the head of Comisiones Obreras union. "This country doesn't need a labor-market reform," he told journalists at a press conference.